- Analysis
Building where the infrastructure already is: accessibility becomes a selection criterion
The Dutch government designated five new large-scale housing sites for 30,000 homes without a euro for access infrastructure. Accessibility has shifted from an investment task to a selection criterion. That does not shrink the stakeholder challenge, it changes its character.
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New track or better track: two routes to accessibility, two very different stakeholder challenges
In mid-August ProRail started the design phase for the Nedersaksenlijn, some 30 kilometres of new railway between Veendam and Emmen. In the same weeks, existing lines around Zwolle, Meppel and on the A2 corridor were closed for days on end for renewal. Two ways of improving accessibility in the same region, with very different consequences for local communities.
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Saving for the Lelylijn: what regional co-financing means for stakeholder and environmental management
Northern Netherlands has chosen its own Lelylijn Regional Savings Fund of €400 million per year. This shifts more than just financing: governance relationships and the role of stakeholder and environmental management also move with it.
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Haarlem rail junction: how the rail replacement task hits the Mobility Fund wall
ProRail must replace the Haarlem rail junction one-to-one in 2028 because funding for future-proof renewal is not available. A parliamentary motion came too late. What this project reveals about the Dutch rail replacement task, and why the Haarlem file is the most instructive case of the year for stakeholder and environmental managers.
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